How To Sell A Haunted House Quotes
"Every family visit lasts three days too long."
"When you are Real, you don’t mind being hurt."
"The idea felt too big to fit inside her head."
"Silence rushed in around her, and she stood alone in the house full of dolls."
"The cane, the hammer, the TV being on, the dolls in her dad’s chair . . . it all felt wrong."
"The words felt like rocks in her mouth."
"Because we don’t want everything our parents owned pushed out the front door like a broom and all our baby teeth left in a plastic bag on the porch. Our parents died three days ago, so if my brother told you to come here and throw everything away, then there’s been a misunderstanding."
"She didn’t want to be thinking about money so soon after her parents had died."
"She wanted to be taken care of so badly. How had she and Mark come to this?"
"The past was over. It was gone. It couldn’t touch her."
"The story of her family was done. Nothing could change that. Mark won. No matter what she did, he always won."
"The greatest night of the year—all the fun of Christmas, New Year’s, and birthdays rolled into one enormous party."
"People lit red-and-white-striped candles and fires and baked cookies, and their houses smelled like fresh wood, warm bricks, pine needles, and butter coming up to room temperature."
"When spooky fucking haunted dolls start writing messages on the wall, you should get the fuck out."
"The whole neighborhood felt different that night. It felt like we were the only two people left in the world."
"Safe. She was okay. She was safe. Nothing could hurt her. It had only been a dream."
Real isn’t how you’re made," Louise said. "When a child loves you for a long, long time, then you become real.
"Nothing mattered anymore. The world was broken."
"Don’t you fucking laugh at me... my life finally makes sense."
"I’m not laughing at you... I don’t know what’s real anymore."
"Puppets are about violence. They don’t do life lessons, they don’t do love."
"Every puppeteer knows that when they wear a puppet it’s live, like a grenade with the pin pulled."
"A puppet is a device for driving the personality out of the body and allowing a spirit to take control."
"Puppets have no freedom, but they give the puppeteer freedom."
"If you’re making real art, not everyone’s always going to like it."
"I felt like I was alone in the house with a bunch of monsters. It was absolutely terrifying."
"A puppet is a possession that possesses the possessor."
"Death was the biggest puppet we’d ever made, and he looked absolutely terrifying."
"I’m still scared. Do you know how many years I’ve spent living in fear?"
"I need you to know that I’m so sorry. I’m sorry I thought you were someone you weren’t. I’m sorry I hated you for it. I’m sorry I’ve hated you for years."
"What do you say after you cut off your brother’s arm?"
"I burned him. There’s nothing left. Pupkin’s gone."
"The problem with Mark was that it was never a little bit of Mark, it was always either none at all or way too much."
"You’ve lost your mother and father and been targeted by the forces of darkness."
"Cursed dolls are easy-peasy, slick and greasy."
"Nothing real can last forever. That’s how you know you’re real. Because one day you die."